Wow when I saw Rancor being reprinted my jaw hit the floor then after I picked up my jaw I started building the most obvious deck to build with Rancor and that is STOMPY, does this now mean stompy may even become a part of the Modern meta.

I love that World's deck. I'd just started playing about a year earlier, and it was the very peak of "DrawGo," at least in my area. That deck was pretty cheap, and wasn't too difficult for an inexperienced player like myself. I especially loved Choke.

The Canadian story was also great. I'm a bit jealous of the national comradrie that they have. Clearly it's something we're missing here in the US. Like most things nowadays, it seems to be focused on what corporation you're associated with.

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I like storm crow because I really like crows in real life, as an animal, and the card isn't terribly stupid, but packs a good deal of nostalgia and also a chunck of the game's history. So it's perhaps one of the cards I have most affection to, but not because "lol storm crow is bad hurr hurr durr".

Although I do assume you deliberately refer to them (DCI) as The Grand Imperial Convocation of Evil just for the purposes of making them sound like an ancient and terrible conspiracy.

Now, now.
1994 doesn't quite qualify as "ancient".

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Oh, it's a brilliant plan. You see, Bolas was travelling through shadowmoor, causing trouble, when he saw a Wickerbough Elder with its stylin' dead scarecrow hat. Now, Bolas being Bolas took the awesome hat and he put it on his head, but even with all his titanic powers of magic he couldn't make it fit. He grabbed some more scarecrows, but then a little kithkin girl asked if he was trying to build a toupee. "BY ALL THE POWERS IN THE MULTIVERSE!" he roared, "I WILL HAVE A HAT WORTHY OF MY GLORY." and so he went through his Dark Lore of Doom (tm) looking for something he could make into a hat that would look as stylish on him as a scarecrow does on a treefolk. He thought about the Phyrexians, but they were covered in goopy oil that would make his nonexistant hair greasy. He Tried out angels for a while but they didn't sit quite right. Then, he looked under "e" (because in the Elder Draconic alphabet, "e" for Eldrazi is right next to "h" for Hat) in his Dark Lore of Doom and saw depictions of the Eldrazi, and all their forms.
"THIS SHALL BE MY HAT!" he declared, poking a picture of Emrakul, "AND WITH IT I WILL USHER IN A NEW AGE OF DARKNESS -- ER, I MEAN A NEW AGE OF FASHION!"
And so Nicol Bolas masterminded the release of the Eldrazi.

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Rhox War Monk just flips pancakes, and if games have told us anything, it's that food = life.

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76973988 wrote:

This thread has gotten creepy. XP

Really?
Really?
The last couple days have been roughly every perverse fetish imaginable, but it only got "creepy" when speculation on Mother of Runes's mob affiliation came up?

I really wonder sometimes: When introducing Rancor, it is shown to be inarguably an unfun card. Granted, I enjoy using it, but only in my singleton decks. Rancor is far more powerful than Lightning Bolt ever was, and here it is coming into the Core Set. I can only imagine why.

"Possibilities abound, too numerous to count."
"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969) "Ever since man first left his cave and met a stranger with a different language and a new way of looking at things, the human race has had a dream: to kill him, so we don't have to learn his language or his new way of looking at things." --- Zapp Brannigan (Beast With a Billion Backs)

I really wonder sometimes: When introducing Rancor, it is shown to be inarguably an unfun card. Granted, I enjoy using it, but only in my singleton decks. Rancor is far more powerful than Lightning Bolt ever was, and here it is coming into the Core Set. I can only imagine why.

Do you see all of that excitement in the comments above you? That's why.

At least the decks it encourages are very different from the decks that have been dominant and frustrating people for the past... well, ever, just about.

I really wonder sometimes: When introducing Rancor, it is shown to be inarguably an unfun card. Granted, I enjoy using it, but only in my singleton decks. Rancor is far more powerful than Lightning Bolt ever was, and here it is coming into the Core Set. I can only imagine why.

Do you see all of that excitement in the comments above you? That's why.

At least the decks it encourages are very different from the decks that have been dominant and frustrating people for the past... well, ever, just about.

I have no doub that the card is exciting and intgeresting. It is one of my favorite cards.

It would already be better than virtually all equipment that produce similar effects, especially since there are few equipment that afford a power boots and trample. This is assured evasion. The same reaction as some respondents, if not more galvanized, occured when Lightning Bolt was announced, especially as its removal from reprinting was done under the auspice of being "too good" (it is). Since, attempting to remake cards that are "too good" (e.g., Counterspell --> Cancel) has been under the impression that some effects should not exist at certain costs, or with certain rider abilities. Some cards are "too good" for the Core Set, and Rancor is one of them.

A second look suggests that several designers and developers feel that Rancor should be red, something played with a bit (at least Matt Cavotta mocked up such an image in this vein).

"Possibilities abound, too numerous to count."
"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969) "Ever since man first left his cave and met a stranger with a different language and a new way of looking at things, the human race has had a dream: to kill him, so we don't have to learn his language or his new way of looking at things." --- Zapp Brannigan (Beast With a Billion Backs)